Re: [RT LATENCY] 249 microsecond latency caused by slub'sunfreeze_partials() code.

[Christoph Lameter]

On Tue, 4 Jun 2013, JoonSoo Kim wrote:

> And I re-read Steven initial problem report in RT kernel and find that
> unfreeze_partial() do lock and unlock several times. This means that
> each page in cpu partial list doesn't come from same node. Why do we
> add other node's slab to this cpu partial list? This is also not good
> for general case. How about considering node affinity in __slab_free()?
> IMHO, if we implement this, Steven's problem can be solved.

We may need the other nodes pages if we consistently allocate from there.
__slab_alloc() ensures that only pages from the correct node are used. It
will drop pages that do not come from the proper nodes.

Filtering in __slab_free would mean that we cannot improve performance on
remote frees.

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